Tag: Regulations

Beltway Confidential

E-cigarettes shouldn’t be marketed to kids, but the FDA shouldn’t target goofy flavors

Erin Dunne · October 3, 2018 7:16 pm

A man uses a Bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong, Friday, May 11, 2018.

Lawmakers press SEC for guidance on cryptocurrencies

Colin Wilhelm · October 1, 2018 10:30 pm

The Clean Power Plan was former President Barack Obama's signature climate rule for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Energy and Environment

EPA advances plan to weaken Obama-era mercury pollution rule to help coal plants

Josh Siegel · October 1, 2018 8:56 pm

Good riddance to Obama’s gas flaring rule

Barry Russell · October 1, 2018 8:39 pm

President Donald Trump hold up his hands and rocks back and forth during the playing of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" song while on stage at a campaign rally at WesBanco Arena, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, in Wheeling, W.Va.

Beltway Confidential

How Trump rescued the economy from Obama’s failed policies

Justin Haskins · October 1, 2018 8:09 pm

Customers and journalists examine a Tesla Model S sedan at an event in Beijing, China, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Tesla Motors delivered its first eight electric sedans to customers in China on Tuesday and Musk said the company will build a nationwide network of charging stations and service centers as fast as it can. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Tesla zeroes in on production goals after Elon Musk’s SEC settlement

Joe Williams · October 1, 2018 4:31 pm

FILE â In this Jan. 14, 2015, file photo, Amado Nanalang watches basketball games while making bets at a sports book owned and operated by CG Technology in Las Vegas. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Dec. 4, 2017, as the state of New Jersey challenges a 1992 law forbidding state-authorized sports gambling in all but four states that met a 1991 deadline to legalize it: Delaware, Montana, Nevada and Oregon.

Congress already ruined sports betting once; don’t let them do it again

Michelle Minton · October 1, 2018 4:00 am

In this May 26, 2011, file photo, a motorcyclist rides between lanes as traffic backs up on U.S. Highway 101 in Mill Valley, Calif.

Energy and Environment

Trump administration pushes to relax fuel rules even as it predicts the Earth will get warmer

Josh Siegel · September 28, 2018 5:27 pm

"I expect to cut back on the number of long-term consent decrees we have in place and to return to the preferred focus on structural relief to remedy mergers that violate the law and harm consumers," Makan Delrahim, the head of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, said Thursday to the American Bar Association's fall conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

US antitrust chief ‘concerned about the concerns’ of Silicon Valley bias

Joe Williams · September 28, 2018 1:13 pm

Facebook reveals security breach affecting 50 million users

Joel Gehrke, James Langford · September 28, 2018 1:03 pm

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference.

SEC opens fraud case against Tesla founder Elon Musk

Joe Williams · September 27, 2018 8:24 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Elizabeth Warren plans dramatic overhaul of affordable housing, increase in federal funding

Colin Wilhelm · September 25, 2018 6:34 pm